My idea of how the proposal should have gone...
She was upset about what happened in the afternoon. The whole idea of getting married to avoid testifying was so heartbreaking. After all those years, she just imagined them working through their issues, build a stable relationship, and in the end marry each other because they loved each other endlessly. She wasn't really a romantic, but she loved him so madly, so irrevocably that it sometimes made her believe in a fairy tale. She never thought that would be important for her, but she wanted them to exchange vows in their wedding. How can you exchange vows when the whole wedding is built on a lie?
She entered his room and he wasn't there. She knew where to find him. She wanted to talk to him; she needed to talk to him.
She went to the Truman balcony, and like she thought, he was there. When she went and sat next to him and started to talk, he interrupted her.
"Olivia" Fitz said. "I want you to listen to me very carefully. Can you do that?" She nodded in response.
"Olivia, my Livvie, you are the love of my life. You are everything that I couldn't even imagine before I met you. You are everything. My heart, my soul, my brain, my body all belong to you. I feel a weight being lifted off my chest when you are in the same room with me. The day I met you, I knew that my life had changed. I knew that I could never go back to how it was and be okay with it. Over the seven years that I loved you, regardless of being together or not at the moment, you were always on my mind when I went to sleep and when I woke up, every day. When you first told me that you loved me, I wasn't angry at my life anymore because all the crap I had to deal with up to that point made it possible for me to find you. You are my life force, and without you, I merely breathe but I don't live. You breathed the life into me the first time I saw you, and since that moment nothing ever made sense without you. What happened today was wrong. I know it made you upset, it felt like a transaction. So Livvie, here is how I feel and what I want. I want to marry you, I want you to be my wife, my partner in life, my partner in crime; I want you to be my partner in whatever life throws at us. I want our lives to be connected to each other's. But I don't want it to happen now – not because I am not ready, I am. But because now it would look like we are doing it for the wrong reasons, and also you obviously are not ready. So I am asking you to say yes to being engaged to me, to wearing my ring now - and to marrying me when the time comes. Just say yes to me, and be my fiancé. Then go and testify if you need to. If I need to be impeached, I will be impeached. I can live without being the president, but I cannot live without you. So, be my fiancé, Olivia Carolyn Pope. Will you?"
He was saying all the things she wanted to hear. In her heart, she knew nothing could ever keep her away from him anymore, there was no happiness for her without him. In her heart, she knew he was truly her everything, and there was no life without him for her anymore. She was his. She was consumed by her love for him. Olivia Pope was nothing without him, his love.
And all she could do was to whisper: "Yes"...